(I'm Swedish, so I'm sorry if my English is faulty.)

My Serbian workmate was cleaning out the grills this evening, and went "Puh! it smells like a witch burning in here."

I said, "Did they do witch burnings in Serbia?"

Which he interpreted as, "Did they burn witches in Serbia when you lived there?"

After some extremely awkward moments I managed to explain that I meant "Where there witch hunts in Serbia during the well known witch processes in Europe of the 15th to 17th centuries," at which point he calmed down. He didn't have an answer, though, and after doing some googling I still don't really have any.

So my short question is, was the witch hunt of that period spread to modern day Serbia?

Longer question; exactly how wide spread was the witch hunt hysteria through Europe during the 15th to 17th centuries?

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Especially when Soviet troops marched into those countries.

After Islam was founded its influence spread out of Arabia into Africa and Asia, and too this day it is the dominant religion in the Middle East, Northern Africa and much of Southeast Asia, mainly Indonesia and Malaysia. However in the Indian subcontinent it is a minority religion, often involved in violent conflicts with other regions like Buddhism and Hinduism. What are the historical reasons for Islam "losing" to Hinduism in India? And how/why did it spread to Southeast Asia despite being halted in India?

I know that there may be some controversy when it comes to the Exodus and the Hebrews as slaves in Egypt. Are there any historical/anthropological evidence of this?

What about the history of the Hebrews after leaving Egypt? How much of it is completely true, how much is exaggerated, and how much seems to be completely false?

I'm looking for a resource that lists the known sons and daughters of Ragnar Lodbrok and give a brief description of their lives and claims to fame. If anyone wanted to write them out that'd be great, or send me somewhere where I could easily see them that'd be great too, but so far I haven't seen any sort of list that plainly spells them all out. Thanks.

I think this would apply to any point in history when animals were directly utilized in combats, which I think would largely exclude the modern wars (except for maybe bomb dogs?). Do animals suffer PTSD like conditions from witnessing mass murder of humans and other animals in combat? If so, are there any records of PTSD like conditions as a result of being involved in direct combat and how were they treated?

Thanks!

I hope the title makes sense; it was hard to figure out how to write what I wanted to ask. Obviously the 'survive' part of the question refers to the word surviving in many Western European languages, including English.

I know it's not easy to answer a "why didn't X happen" question, so here are a couple of other questions that I would find interesting to have answered: When did the word "Deutschland" appear? When did the word "Gaul" disappear from common parlance?

I study history and am going to start a paper on this matter soon. Any literature you can recommend is greatly appreciated.

It just seems to me that air rifles like the Girardoni, which could fire 40 rounds in succession before being de-pressurized, would be such a huge advantage over muzzle-loaders. Wouldn't the ability to fire ten shots to your opponents one be such a huge advantage as to negate complications in training and supply?

I wonder this alot in regards to fast-loading rifles (not just air) in the 19th century.

I always hear a lot about Germans choosing to flee west and surrender to the Allies rather than the Soviets, but why is this?

Also, did this have anything to do with Communism, because I have also heard that going through the 30's into the 40's there were Communist sympathizers in Germany at the time, were they afraid of the Soviets as well though?

I guess I'm thinking specifically Englad, but information on any European region will do.

Doing a Google search yields only information on massive stone cathedrals or castles which undoubtedly needed quarries. But for village needs, how did the peasants get stone? Did they just walk around gathering up rocks off the ground, did they have their own small quarry, or was there some other way of acquiring stone?

At first glance it seems like every Indian reservation is the result of some kind of displacement of people. Are there any tribes who still live in the same geographic area as they did in Pre-Colombian times? I'm specifically speaking about native groups in the United States.

I had no idea how to Google this, and I didn't find this specific question in the FAQ. Sorry if it's already been asked.

I wondered to what extent people deemed Américo Castro's term to be a valid cultural analysis of medieval al-andalus, and if not, how any discord between the Christians, Muslims, and Jews might have manifested itself - thanks!

ie. Is the religious divide we see between Hindus and Muslims in the subcontinent due to them being of different ancestrical lines (as Islam was introduced later with what I assume to be Arab and Turkish immigrants/conquerors) or are they closely related ethnically, with conversions in the past accounting for the religious differences today? Or a little bit of both?

I remember reading about the systemic destruction of Mayan artefacts by the Catholic church including their codices*, but was this a generalised practice carried out in Europe, or just the new world? If so what were some of the most important artefacts to have been lost in this way?

*edit: codices is the plural of codex apparently...

'Them' being the Soviet Union.

A huge amount of the USSR's population died in WW2 and their country sustained massive damage. Yet after WW2 they rose as a superpower and were stronger than ever. Is it accurate to claim that Germany invading was 'the best thing that ever happened to them'?

I'm in the middle of a prompted essay about Homer's Iliad (Fagles)

The second half of the prompt basically reads "How is war fought, and how (if at all) does it align with aristocratic ethos"

It's the ethos part that has me stumped. I'm aware of what ethos, pathos, and logos are, but we have not talked about persuasion in relation to the text.

When I asked for clarification I got a cookie cutter "I'm not going to do it for you, we covered it in class response".

We covered Time, arete, and kleos and how they were relevant, but not ethos... Am I missing something here? Is there a broader definition of the term that I'm not privy to?

I'm not looking for someone to go through the text and spoon feed me the answer! Just a little clarification.

I'm not suggesting they actually do depict Africans, but there really is something odd about them. They are said to be non idealized portraits of Olmec rulers, but they look nothing like Native Americans, at least not to me. Perhaps they looked very realistic to the Olmecs but to modern viewers who have seen Africans and Native Americans they look more like the former? Anyway, what if any credible scholarship has been written about what I am describing?

The idea of wielding two one-handed weapons in battle is fairly common in video games and other fictional media. But have there ever been warriors who went into battle with dual-wielded weapons? Have there ever been individuals noted for dual wielding?